Give and Go

Pastor Gregg Matte teaches from Ezra 1:3-5 that God’s plans include our gifts. God has put a spiritual gift inside of you and your giftedness gets to be part of building the kingdom of God. Being involved in God’s plans is something he wants FOR us, not FROM us. God desires we give of ourselves and of our resources so that we can go out into our workplace, our community, our world and be a Differncemaker.

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Gregg Matte is the senior pastor of Houston’s First Baptist Church. Under his leadership, this historic church founded in 1841 has moved... read more

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Ezra 1:3–11

3Whoever is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and rebuild the house of the Lord, the God of Israel— he is the God who is in Jerusalem.4And let each survivor, in whatever place he sojourns, be assisted by the men of his place with silver and gold, with goods and with beasts, besides freewill offerings for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.”

5Then rose up the heads of the fathers’ houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites, everyone whose spirit God had stirred to go up to rebuild the house of the Lord that is in Jerusalem.6And all who were about them aided them with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, with beasts, and with costly wares, besides all that was freely offered.7 Cyrus the king also brought out the vessels of the house of the Lord that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the house of his gods.8Cyrus king of Persia brought these out in the charge of Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah.9And this was the number of them: 30 basins of gold, 1,000 basins of silver, 29 censers,1030 bowls of gold, 410 bowls of silver, and 1,000 other vessels;11all the vessels of gold and of silver were 5,400. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up, when the exiles were brought up from Babylonia to Jerusalem.